Marked for Donatas Dapkus
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlantas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Donatas Dapkus and Atlantas agree another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Atlantas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Atlantas, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Donatas Dapkus’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market5 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlantas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Paulauskas is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Aidas Eliosius was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Linas Paulauskas falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Atlantas, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Vikintas Satkus was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market14 Sep 2026
6 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Atlantas could get for him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vikintas Satkus trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Mantas Sernas hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlantas can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saulius Barauskas is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market31 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Atlantas will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Atlantas have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Linas Paulauskas is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.